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John T. Baker
John T. Baker first arrived in GAJOOB’s PO Box with his cassette, Itchy Scalp Theater in 1995, and was an instant favorite of mine. His brand of guitar-laden, melodic pop is a joy. He has released his music under a few different label names: Ivey deMilo Recordings was early and recently it’s Baker Acres.
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Tapegermination Vol.1 No7
The seventh collection of music to come out of the Tapegerm Collective project was released some time in 2000, judging from Wayback snapshots of tapegerm.com which lists a dozen albums out by August 2001 (which was just at one-and-a-half years of activity at that point). The germinations were released in two volumes, the first consisting…
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Don Campau’s Living Archive of Underground Music
Don Campau has been an active champion of independent underground music even longer than I have. His primary pulpit has been his radio show spanning several decades which has expanded since his “retirement” into multiple shows and helping to manage a station that reaches everywhere with experimental music and home taping shows. Don created his…
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Storage Update
GAJOOB’s Underground Music collection is stored in a climate controlled facility at a cost of $120/mo. You can see boxes here from the Homemade Music CD Shop era, a couple tubs of mail needing to be reviewed, shoe boxes of material from Ken Clinger’s collection and more.
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Dave Fuglewicz
#151 Dave Fuglewicz was a creator of electronic music since the early 80’s and active in independent music circles since 1990. As a longtime Tapegerm collaborator, he explored a wide range of styles working both solo and together with a wide range of artists from noise to spoken word. Before his passing he archived a large body of…
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Discover Sounds: Backyard House by Dino DiMuro
This is a song from Disc 2 of my upcoming double CD, DINO’S 50. Like most songs on that album, BACKYARD HOUSE features a Fender Stratocaster on the left speaker, a Gibson Les Paul on the right, Fender Bass, drums, and vocals. I wrote this song shortly after buying a blue Silvertone electric guitar at…
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Dino DiMuro
#593 Dino DiMuro was one of my early favorite hometaper contacts; his quirky prog rock pop songs were full of quick changes and odd slices of life. Dino was first interviewed in GAJOOB #4.
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Captive Audience/Pivotal Records
Captive Audience is the electronic music project of Conley/Warwick. The duo was active in the underground tape world and contributed to Tapegerm in its beginnings and later as well. Captive Audience also created short films and distributed them on VHS tapes. Artifacts
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Captive Audience – Lost Highway
Lost Highway is a short film by Captive Audience from a 1999 VHS tape, Vol. 2: Six short films. Copyright 1999 Conley/Warwick.
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Joseph Benzola’s Amanita Music
Joseph Benzola is an independent multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer living in NY. He does not conform to one discipline’ idiom~ or theory, but embraces all types of music’s and playing philosophies. He does not see a dichotomy between written or improvised, acoustic or electric, real time or sequenced, jazz, classical, rock, world music, etc. Instead,…